Obama ignored advice of military in his goofy decision to retreat from Afghanistan


Stephen Hayes:

Lieutenant General John Allen told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the Afghanistan decision President Obama announced last week was not among the range of options the military provided to the commander in chief. Allen’s testimony directly contradicts claims from senior Obama administration officials from a background briefing before the president’s announcement.

In response to questioning from Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Allen testified that Obama’s decision on the pace and size of Afghanistan withdrawals was “a more aggressive option than that which was presented.”

Graham pressed him. “My question is: Was that a option?”

Allen: “It was not.”

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It appears the White House tried to deceive the public about where the decision came from. That is just compounded the original mistake of deciding to pull the troops out too soon.  There is more in the article about the attempts to deceive.

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